Nearly 1,250 US state legislators took a valid authoritarianism scale

Evidence

If you believe the politicians filled out the scales themselves—and not one piece of evidence indicates otherwise—then we apparently have trustworthy data from a valid measure of authoritarianism on 1,233 of the most powerful people in the United States—people who decide state criminal codes, taxation policies, human rights laws, educational funding, gun control, abortion bills, capital punishment, industry regulations, inner city programs, and a great deal more. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3692

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